A World Connected by Nayan Chanda & Nayan Chanda & Susan Froetschel

Author:Nayan Chanda & Nayan Chanda & Susan Froetschel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

The Sovereignty of Disease

David L. Heymann

Information about infectious disease outbreaks travels today at speeds and in ways not imagined just 30 years ago. Individual countries can no longer ignore the disease or hide reports.1 No recent infectious disease outbreak exemplifies this better than that of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, in 2002-2003.2 Detected by reports on the internet, the SARS outbreak demonstrated that the global community has assumed the role of reporting infectious diseases that threaten to spread internationally, aided by the ease and power of electronic communication through the World Wide Web. The global community responded to the SARS outbreak with a rapidity and scale never before seen for an emerging infectious-disease outbreak. From the start of the SARS outbreak, networks of epidemiologists, clinicians and virologists from around the world linked together to participate in its containment. They freely shared information among themselves and with the scientific community, identifying a new coronavirus as the cause of the outbreak, providing the best possible guidance for patient management and defining the risk factors for infection and modes of transmission.3 Individual chains of transmission from persons who carried infection to countries such as the Philippines, Mongolia and Vietnam. Illustration from SARS: How a Global Epidemic Was Stopped.

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